ABSTRACT
This account of the 1967 excavations at Faxton has been assembled from three different sources: handwritten notes left by Lawrence Butler, an interim report to the DMVRG, and the excavator’s 1968 Current Archaeology article (Butler 1968b). It is the least satisfactory of the three years of excavation accounts. Only an early list of four stratigraphical ‘phases’ now survives and all features such as ditches and their fills lack descriptions, though they are numbered on the bromide figures. None of the original on-site plans can now be found but some detail can be rescued by returning to the excavation photographs, which once again provide valuable coverage. For example, the period phase plans can be linked for the most part to the draft stratigraphical listing and from this it is possible to see how the interpretation for Figure 5.23 was arrived at. Features on the excavation photographs can sometimes be matched up and there are also inked-up, but mostly unnumbered, section drawings. In spite of many attempts to do so, it has proved impossible to relate the phased plans to the highly abbreviated text on the ‘houses’ which Butler wrote for Current Archaeology in 1968.
